PARIS (AFP) – A Paris hospital which made a public appeal for stool samples for a study on intestinal diseases said on Friday (Nov 23) it had suspended the project after being inundated by donors hoping for an easy €50 (S$78). “We had to cancel the call for donors and halt the study because it […]
The husband and son of a woman who died at the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) hours after undergoing an emergency caesarean section have settled their High Court action for nervous shock for €650,000. Nora Hyland (31), who is originally from Malaysia, of Charlotte Quay, Dublin, died on the operating table at the NMH, Holles Street, […]
LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – Forget TVs and smart speakers, now homebuilders are offering cut-price Black Friday deals on London apartments too. “Unmissable deals on every home at Highgate Court worth up to £50,000,” trumpets a listing by Bellway on property website Rightmove. That equates to S$88,000. The discounts are available this weekend for the properties in […]
An accident-prone Limerick man has told a court “my body is destroyed from people driving into me”. At Ennis Circuit Court, Gerry McDonagh said: “I don’t go around claiming off people for nothing. If you get hurted, you get hurted.” Mr McDonagh was giving evidence concerning his latest compensation claim for alleged injuries in a […]
A High Court judge has awarded €8,000 compensation to a garda for a soft tissue shoulder injury, not the €20,000 sought, in line with a downwards “recalibration” of personal injury awards in certain cases by up to 50 per cent. Unfortunately, the legal costs of the case are likely to be “a multiple” of the […]
A Brazilian student has described how an attack by a serial sex offender she met on Tinder destroyed her dream of learning English here. Patrick Nevin (37) was convicted last December of sexually assaulting a Brazilian student whom he had met for a first date, after they contacted each other via Tinder in July 2014. […]
A Spanish court’s decision to clear two men of rape despite the victim begging them to stop has prompted outrage from feminists. The court jailed the uncle and nephew for four-and-a-half years for sexual abuse, rather than the graver offence. A similar verdict in a gang rape case this year prompted large demonstrations against “patriarchal” […]
Three men have been charged with false imprisonment and assault causing harm in relation to an incident at a house in the Moneymore estate in Drogheda, Co Louth. Josh Boylan, Dean Thornton and John James McGahon appeared before judge John Coughlan at Drogheda District Court. The had been detained under Section 30 of the Offences […]
Investigating gardaí have charged three men in connection with an incident in Moneymore, Drogheda. A fourth man who was arrested yesterday is still detained at Dundalk Garda Station. He can be held for up to 72 hours. The men – three of whom are in their 20s and a fourth man in his 40s – […]
The central section of the project, which is building a new railway underneath London, was due to open next month. But in August it was announced that the opening had been delayed until autumn next year. More follows… Source: Read Full Article